Early problems with voting machines are starting to show up, and they seem to be rather more serious than a few glitches. A glitch is when I'm not sure if I kicked the voting machine unplugged by accident. When my vote flips from the candidate of my choice to the opposing candidate all by itself, that's more than just a little glitch.
Paper ballots and Pencils: superior technology.
Monday, October 30, 2006
THE STUPIDEST IDEA EVER
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I think that voting machines should give you a receipt, just like when you use a Diebold ATM.
But let's face it: even paper can't stop an election from being rigged. Ever hear of the phrase, "Stuffing the ballot box?" Computerized voting just leaves fewer traces.
Anyway, we here in the US don't live in a democracy; we live in a republic. If our government was a true democracy, then it would be one voter = one vote. But thanks to the Electoral College, that means nothing. Gore won the popular vote over Shrub but thanks to the shenanigans in Florida, Shrub won more electoral votes. That was the fourth time in US history that a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost due to the EC magic math.
And people wonder why I don't vote. Well, why bother when the popular vote means nothing? Al Gore had 543,816 more votes than Shrub. But in the end, thanks to the EC, this formula held true: 543,816 = 0. That's what I call magic math.
I don't support corruption: I don't vote.
Ray
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